Demographic Engineering Research Articles

Political Demography, Demographic Engineering

Political Demography, Demographic Engineering

Book Review: The Demographic Struggle for Power: The Political Economy of Demographic Engineering in the Modern World

Book Review: The Demographic Struggle for Power: The Political Economy of Demographic Engineering in the Modern World

The Demographic Struggle for Power: The Political Economy of Demographic Engineering in the Modern World

The Demographic Struggle for Power: The Political Economy of Demographic Engineering in the Modern World

The demographic struggle for power: the political economy of demographic engineering in the modern world

The demographic struggle for power: the political economy of demographic engineering in the modern world

'Demographic engineering': the state-directed movement of ethnic groups as a technique of conflict regulation

In this article I examine the state-directed movement of ethnic groups. Such movements include the settlement of majority groups in peripheral regions inhabited by minorities, the relocation of minority groups within the state, and the expulsion of minorities from the state. An important theme of the article is that, while such policies have been implemented for centuries, modern state-directed movements are closely linked to the growth of nationalism. The study seeks to answer three important questions: (1) Why do states move ethnic groups? (2) How do states move ethnic groups? (3) Under what circumstances will states engage in such policies?

The Demographic Struggle for Power: The Political Economy of Demographic Engineering in the Modern World.

The Demographic Struggle for Power: The Political Economy of Demographic Engineering in the Modern World.

Political criminogenesis of democracy in the colonial settler‐state: Terror, terrorism, and guerrilla warfare

Abstract Terror, terrorism, and guerrilla warfare are distinct phenomena. The analysis of the social‐cultural‐historical context of the colonial settler‐state, with particular emphasis on South Africa, Fiji, and New Caledonia, clarifies the differences between terror, terrorism, and guerrilla warfare while noting the reasons that indigenous political extremists rationalize their violence. Such an analysis reveals that past demographic engineering by colonial powers or their overseas representatives in the form of the state has resulted in a current sociopolitical reality in which democracy denoted by one‐person, one‐vote enfranchisement may ensure the continued subordination of the colonized indigenous population, thus resulting in the turn to terror, terrorism, or guerrilla warfare by radical sectors of the numerically inferior indigenous population.

An Interview with Koentjaraningrat

Previous articleNext article No AccessReportsAn Interview with KoentjaraningratLeontine VisserLeontine Visser Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Current Anthropology Volume 29, Number 5Dec., 1988 Sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/203697 Views: 11Total views on this site Citations: 5Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1988 The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological ResearchPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Riwanto Tirtosudarmo Transmigration and New Order’s Development Plan, (Mar 2022): 23–47.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6437-3_2Riwanto Tirtosudarmo The Politics of Regulating Overseas Migrant Workers, (Mar 2022): 145–163.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6437-3_8Riwanto Tirtosudarmo Development-Migration-Conflict: An Observation in the Mid-1990s, (Jan 2019): 29–47.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-9032-5_2Riwanto Tirtosudarmo Demographic Engineering and Displacement, (Jan 2019): 49–68.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-9032-5_3Riwanto Tirtosudarmo The Malay World and the Politics of Space, (Jan 2019): 115–124.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-9032-5_7

Editorial Essay: Iraqi Refugees, Beyond the Urban Refugee Paradigm

Displacement and exile have been recurrent and durable phenomena affecting Iraqi society for the last 90 years. The process of forming an Iraqi state from the ruins of the Ottoman empire, which Aristide Zolberg has analyzed as a prime factor generating refugee flows,has been ongoing since 1920. Unfinished endeavours to build a state and nation have been characterized by almost incessant antagonistic claims over the nature of the state and national identity, the exercise of and access to political power, control of natural resources and border sovereignty. Political repression, violent regime change, redefinition of national identity, demographic engineering, and domestic or international armed conflicts have resulted in eviction, deportation, denaturalization, political emigration, and flight from violence. A large part of displacement in Iraq has been internal. But vast numbers of refugees and exiles have also formed a regional and global diaspora extending from Iran, Jordan, Israel, Syria, all the way to such distant emigration countries as New Zealand.